CD player

See also: CD-player and CD-Player

English

Alternative forms

• CD-player

Noun

CD player (plural CD players)

1. (consumer electronics) An electronic device that plays compact discs.
   • 2022, NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory, Chatto & Windus, page 192:

     She takes it to the living room, grateful for the ancient CD player that still sits proudly on the trolley beneath the window like a prized relic because Simiso is of the generation that will simply not part with things no matter how many deaths they die.

Translations

CD player

Arabic: مَشْغَل سِي دِي m (mašḡal sī dī), مَشْغَل CD m (mašḡal sī dī) Chinese: Mandarin: CD播放機 / CD播放机 (xìdì bōfàngjī), CD機 / CD机 (xìdìjī) Czech: CD přehrávač m Danish: CD-afspiller c, cd-afspiller (da) c Dutch: cd-speler (nl) m Faroese: fløguspælari m Finnish: CD-soitin (fi) French: lecteur CD (fr) m, lecteur de CD (fr) m Georgian: კომპაქტ-დისკების დამკვრელი (ḳomṗakṭ-disḳebis damḳvreli) German: CD-Spieler (de) m Greek: συσκευή CD (syskeví CD) Hindi: सीडी प्लेयर (sīḍī pleyar) Hungarian: CD-lejátszó Irish: seinnteoir CDanna m Italian: lettore CD m Japanese: CDプレーヤー (ja) (shīdī purēyā) Korean: CD 플레이어 (sidi peulleieo) Norman: joueux d'CDs m Norwegian: Bokmål: CD-spiller m, CD-speller m, cd-spiller m, cd-speller m Nynorsk: CD-spelar m, cd-spelar m Portuguese: CD player (pt) m, diskman m Russian: CD-пле́ер m (CD-pléjer), си-ди-пле́ер m (si-di-pléjer) Spanish: reproductor de CD m, lector de CD m Swedish: cd-spelare (sv) c Thai: เครื่องเล่นซีดี (krʉ̂ʉang-lên sii-dii) Welsh: chwaraewr CD m

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English CD player.

Noun

CD player m (plural CD players)

1. CD player (device that plays audio CDs)

   Synonym: diskman

Further reading

• “CD player”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025